Latin

Verb

circumscrībō ‎(present infinitive circumscrībere, perfect active circumscrīpsi, supine circumscrīptum); third conjugation

1. I draw a line around, enclose in a circle, circumscribe.
2. I enclose, limit, bound, restrain, hem in.
3. (medicine) I abate, subside.
4. I deceive, cheat, circumvent, entrap, ensnare
5. I defraud, deprive of money.
6. I declare invalid, annul, invalidate, void.

Inflection

Descendants

• French: circonscrire
• Spanish: circunscribir

References

• circumscribo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• circumscribo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “circumscribo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to set bounds to a thing, limit it: terminis circumscribere aliquid